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Eduardo Torralba Beci
Born	1881
Died	1929(1929-00-00) (aged 47–48)
Occupation	Journalist
Known for	Co-founder of Communist Workers Party

Eduardo Torralba Beci (1881–1929) was a Spanish journalist and politician. He joined different left-wing parties and co-founded Communist Workers Party. He was among the editors-in-chief of El Socialista, official organ of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Biography

Torralba was born in 1881. He was a journalist by profession. In 1904 he began to head the Spanish Socialist Youth. He was arrested and detained in 1906 due to his statements which were regarded as insults to the religion. He was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Between 1914 and 1916 he served at the executive committee of the General Union of Workers. In 1914 he was also appointed editor-in-chief of the official newspaper of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, El Socialista. Torralba replaced Mariano García Cortes in the post. Torralba's tenure as the editor of the paper ended in 1915 when Pablo Iglesias, founder of the paper, retook the post.

In 1918 Torralba was among the members of the first national committee of the Communist Party. In April 1921 he co-founded the Communist Workers Party. He represented the party at the Third World Congress of the Comintern. He died in 1929.

References

1. ^ John Riddell, ed. (2015). To the Masses. Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. Vol. 91. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 1268. doi:10.1163/9789004288034_038. ISBN 9789004288034.
2. ^ Paul Heywood (2003). Marxism and the Failure of Organised Socialism in Spain, 1879-1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-521-53056-9.
3. ^ Eduardo Montagut (20 May 2022). "Los inicios de El Socialista". El Obrero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2022.
4. Victor Alba (1983). The Communist Party in Spain. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-4128-1999-2.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Eduardo Torralba Beci at Wikimedia Commons

• 20th-century Spanish journalists
• 1881 births
• 1929 deaths
• Communist Party of Spain politicians
• Spanish political party founders
• Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
• Spanish Comintern people
• Spanish prisoners and detainees
• Spanish newspaper editors